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by kevlened 793 days ago
In an ideal world, the private key should be stored in an HSM, preventing exfiltration. However, even assuming an HSM, the current scheme doesn't protect against malicious actors pre-signing requests on the client and exfiltrating those requests.

This library adds more defense-in-depth, making it harder to attack sessions, but not impossible.